Last week, I wrote a post entitled "Loper Comes For the DEA. Will it Matter Though?" In that post, I discussed a brand new federal Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals case that concluded...

Running a cannabis business is difficult and many people fail. These ventures bottom out for myriad reasons, although owners tend to blame federal law issues first of all.

Harris Sliwoski attorney Jason Adelstone joins industry experts for a live webinar examining the current state of federal cannabis rescheduling following the DEA administrative hearing process. The panel will analyze recent regulatory developments and discuss what cannabis businesses should monitor as the legal landscape continues to shift.

Hopefully this is the penultimate time I'll write about Ballot Measure 119. Hopefully, some three weeks from now, I'll publish one last post explaining that this landgrab initiative was annihilated, judicially speaking.

Welcome the ninth annual "State of the State" post on Oregon cannabis. I feel like an old man.

Copyright in China is a bundle of personal and property rights attaching to certain types of works.

Last Wednesday, the Oregon cannabis lawsuit we've been waiting for finally dropped. Industry operators should tip their hats to plaintiffs Ascend Dispensary and Bubble's Hash, and our friends at the law firm...

"An hour of planning can save ten hours of doing." Apparently, Dale Carnegie said that.

Even with slightly lighter attendance at MjBizCon this year, the quality of conversations and the overall engagement felt stronger than ever. The insights, candor, and determination that filled the hallways and side events...

Earlier this year, the DEA initiated rulemaking to reclassify cannabis as a schedule III narcotic. This is probably the biggest news in cannabis reform since the Controlled Substances Act became law.

State-licensed medical marijuana operators now have a narrow 60-day window to apply for DEA registration, potentially positioning their businesses for future interstate and global trade.

For years, people have tried to decipher the incredibly poorly worded (I can't stress this enough) language in the 2018 Farm Bill and what it means...

The end of 2024 marks two years in the books for the Oregon Psilocybin Services (OPS) program.

I wrote about Robert Hunter Biden's indictment for violation of federal gun laws in a post entitled "What the Hunter Biden Indictment Means for Cannabis Users" back in September 2023.

As far as I know, the OLCC is a party to two, separate litigations surrounding its administrative rules. The first lawsuit relates to Ballot Measure 119...

With Democrats now in control of the White House and Congress, the chances of federal legalization and regulation have never been better.

With Democrats now in control of the White House and Congress, the chances of federal legalization and regulation have never been better.

The Church of Gaia announced on Friday that it has been "granted the first-ever approval for a Petition for Religious Exemption from the Controlled Substances Act pursuant to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act."

Whether you support them or not, intoxicating hemp products are probably not going to be around for much longer in their current form. States, municipalities, and even the federal government...

There are many ways to set up a cannabis business, and we like to think that we've seen them all. But there's probably no worse category than 50/50 ownership of a business– a recipe for all sorts of disasters.